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Photographer: Nigel Mykura. (Creative Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: The Globe and Mail<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The voices of Canadian servicemen fade in and out, at times clear and booming, at others distant and muffled. But for their families, these scratchy, static-laden messages were the sound of hope.<\/p>\n

The men were prisoners captured during the Second World War by the Japanese army, which broadcast their messages home over Radio Tokyo. Short-wave radio enthusiasts on the west coast of the United States listened in, making a hobby of recording the messages onto cardboard discs and sending them to the soldiers\u2019 families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Complete with audio from the original discs, this is an article you should view in full at The Globe and Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Source: The Globe and Mail) The voices of Canadian servicemen fade in and out, at times clear and booming, at others distant and muffled. But for their families, these scratchy, static-laden messages were the sound of hope. The men were prisoners captured during the Second World War by the Japanese army, which broadcast their messages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,288],"tags":[15,4091,677,676],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-radio-history","tag-canada","tag-radio-history","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-zc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25375,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-raaf-no-4-wireless-unit-never-to-march-never-to-be-mentioned\/","url_meta":{"origin":2182,"position":0},"title":"The RAAF No. 4 Wireless Unit: Never to march, never to be mentioned","author":"Thomas","date":"April 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Neil Bolitho, who shares the following story\u00a0in reply to our post yesterday Australian Codebreakers in WWII. 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